DPC of En + Clouds of Siberia

In May, 2017 En + Group started the first module of DPC of Cloud of Siberia. The DPC was located in the territory of the New and Irkutsk combined heat and power plant of the company in Irkutsk. It should become the first in the network of the similar centers of the same name which En + Group is going to develop in the territory of the region, according to demand.

Based on the first module of DPC the company offers clients virtual computing powers and storage systems (infrastructure as service, IaaS), the software as a service (SaaS), disaster recovery as service (DRaaS).

The manager of projects of En + Kirill Orekhov in June told Group TAdviser that the potential power of the first module of DPC in an overall load will be in the total power of 15 hardware and software systems including:

• 7560 virtual processors at a frequency of 2.3 GHz,
• 30 Tb RAM,
• 2475 Tb disk space, from which 315 Tb — the volume of disk space of solid-state disks, 2160 Tb — hard drives,
• the volume of DWH under backup — 2,640 Tb.

The module of the first DPC of Cloud of Siberia (a photo - alldatacenterd.ru)

The project is implemented in partnership with Huawei.

+ Group provides to En DPC with own electric power. The company considers it competitive advantage since costs for the electric power reach 50-70% of cost value of cloud data processing, explain in En + Group.

The DPC is focused on providing hi-tech cloud services to clients from Russia and China. In addition to construction of network of DPCs of Cloud of Siberia, the company studies a number of projects with the Chinese and Russian partners in construction of such centers for a number of anchor clients from Russia and China.

The Russian market of DPC is in a formation stage as the developed infrastructure of commercial data centers which conforms to international standards of reliability is available only in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Because of expensive earth and the electric power business considers the possibility of construction of power-intensive IT infrastructure in regions, - Group note in En +.

+ Group read plans for creation of own network of DPCs in the territory of En power facilities in 2014. Then in the company calculated that the main part of her clients (about 60%) the companies will make^[1] of China^[2]. Kirill Orekhov told TAdviser that En + Group conducts negotiations with potential clients from the People's Republic of China, but is not ready to disclose their key parameters yet.

The fact that case reached creation of the first object in three years Nuts explained TAdviser with the fact that projects in new areas for the company are implemented under the confirmed demand. After determination of demand, the nature of required services is specified, further, technical solution under this demand is developed. This process takes time, the representative of En + notes Group.

The controlling shareholder and the president of En + Group is the entrepreneur, the billionaire Oleg Deripaska. En + Group owns its assets in metallurgy, power, the mining industry. The main asset of En + Group is a share in aluminum giant UC Rusal.

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